Top 119 Quotes & Sayings by Jon Gruden - Page 2

This whole social media scene makes me sick.

All I ever wanted to do was coach, 'cause I knew I wasn't gonna be a player.

I don't want to look at myself like I'm some superhero. But I'm not going to let people wipe their feet on football on my chest.

Some of the best lessons that I've ever learned are on a ball field - basketball, football, baseball, golf. And I learned great lessons from my coaches - being on time, being mentally tough, having some discipline, and being part of a team.

I just try to get the most out of every day and be prepared for anything.

Antonio Gates is spectacular. But he's not a blocking tight end.

We've got enough issues in this country without worrying about some of the things we're worrying about. It's unbelievable to me. And as long as I'm alive, I know what football gave me. It taught me my work ethic. It gave me a sense of discipline.

You have to be able to recognize defenses on your own in pro football. You can't look to the sideline and read some board. You've got to recognize the defense on your own, and then you've got to communicate to your offensive teammates what you want them to do.

I learned from Al Davis. We didn't have any secretaries. Secretaries, really, in Oakland were young football people.

I took a lot of pride, honestly, in hiring these young guys, that not only to become future head coaches, but I wanted young guys that could help me - guys that can coach, guys that could study, guys that loved it, that would do it for nothing. That's how I got into coaching with the 49ers when John McVay hired me.

If you're a young kid out there, put away your Twitter accounts if you want to be a pro football player. Somebody's going to hack your account; somebody's going to cause you problems.

I kind of like to be one of the guardians of the game.

I learned a lot from Al Davis, and I got a lot better as a coach.

There are very few passions in my life - The man upstairs, family, and football.

It doesn't make much sense to blitz a guy that gets rid of the ball in less than 1.5 seconds.

I spend most of my time looking at game film.

In football, we tried each week to come up with the best game plan for every opponent. Some were tougher than others.

Some guys, nothing bothers them. Eli Manning is one of those players.

I compete with myself. I try to get more done than you. I don't know why.

If ESPN ever kicked me out the door and I had to get back to coach, I have to stay on top of what's going on.

You think of Brady, you think of Rodgers, Roethliseber, Eli Manning. They're icemen. They have no feelings - none. They're able to concentrate on a snap-by-snap basis.

I got kicked out of the league because I had a hard time sustaining at the quarterback position.

I show up in a playoff game, I have my sideline sheet. I can't even spit plays out, I get so excited. I mean, you get nervous. These are critical, do-or-die situations. Third down and 1, Red Zone, what do I call? Two minute drill? Are we going to go no huddle? These are decisions that you wrestle with.

I get excited for big games in December.

I love Olivier Vernon, and I wish he knew how much I appreciate him by just watching him.

I'm not a good golfer. I don't have any hobbies, really.

You want to take a charge from LeBron James coming down the lane with no helmet on - that's dangerous. But you know what? Some people like to do that stuff. So leave them alone.

When we had a great defense at Tampa Bay, we always measured our defenses against the best quarterbacks.

A lot of people forget how extraordinary Elway was handing the ball off to Terrell Davis, and those bootlegs, those naked bootlegs off of those stretch plays was devastating.

Some of the best tape that I've ever studied was Mike Shanahan and John Elway in Denver, back-to-back Super Bowl win teams.

Eli Manning is the one man I just don't want to see in the playoffs. He is a flatliner.

I think when you get Robert Griffin, one of the most explosive quarterbacks to ever play the position, in a Mike Shanahan-type system, the possibilities are very exciting, I think, with Mike Shanahan's imagination.

You either have the charisma, the knowledge, the passion, the intelligence - or you don't.

I've been hitting up Hooters since 1983, and I can assure you nothin' says football season is here quite like watching the game on wall-to-wall flat screen TVs with the smell of Hooters world-famous chicken wings in the air and an ice-cold beer in your hand, served up with one-and-only Hooters hospitality, of course.

I had all kinds of different quarterbacks. But we never drafted a first-rounder.

To be a good analyst, you need to know what the trends are and what teams are doing.

From the standpoint that you try to adjust your offense to your quarterback, you try to adjust your football team around your players. You do the best you can with the hand that you have, and you've got to add some parts along the way.

God bless Tony Romo.

Cancer is tough. It is a relentless opponent that won't seem to go away.

The Seahawks defense has to go balls deep to win this game.

Meaningless yards are not meaningful.

I'm not thinking about coaching, I'm thinking about heading to Washington, watching the world champions and my brother coach

Mike, did you ever see the movie 'Cast Away?' In that movie, Tom Hanks' only friend was a ball named Wilson. In this game, Russell Wilson's only friend is a football.

If any QB can complete passes to himself, it's Johnny Manziel.

I bet you like sitting at red lights.

He should voicemail get open!

Right now Von Miller is the best pass rusher in the world. He looks exactly like Derrick Thomas did in his heyday. He can absolutely destroy a football game.

I call them the Sons of Anarchy Muhammad WilkerSON, Damon HarriSON, Sheldon RichardSON

Just because you are getting younger doesn't mean you are getting better

If you understand our salary cap, you have to be logical. If Barry Sanders , for instance, came out of retirement, if we were interested we probably couldn't get real interested. So you've got to temper your enthusiasm with the reality of our situation.

I just wanna see some football.

I'm going to scare a lot of kids Thursday night.

Anything goes on any given Sunday, especially Monday Night.

If I stop pushing you, if I stop demanding of you, if I stop getting on you, then I probably don't think you have much to offer.

You know what I hate, man? Guys that you know haven't seen the film: they just quote a bunch of statistical bullshit.

Mike, the best band to ever come out of Seattle was, of course, Pearl Jam. And that's what I expect the Seahawks to do - just jam it up the middle.

You never stay the same. You either get better or you get worse.

Ultra high speed slow mo.

Follow the ball, man. There's only one ball. They can only give it to one of them at a time, so let's not get too far away from the reality of it all.